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Chris Foley, APCO, Part 2

Chris Foley joins Zaidee Jackson discussion the once in a generational change to the Australian packaging landscape.
They unpack the process APCO, government, industry along with specialists are undertaking to review the current and future states of the transformational change the industry is embarking on.

Renata Daudt, Awen Consulting

The founder of Awen Consulting, Renata Daudt provides insight to the audience on the key elements on why engaging with a packaging engineer is critical to improve outcomes for packaging throughout the entire supply chain.
She sheds light on what the packaging legislation that will be mandated means to brands, convertors and printers.

Circular packaging of the future

Metsä Board’s Better with Less – Design Challenge 2022–2023 challenged designers and their creativity to re-invent consumer packaging.
The need for recyclable, fit-for-purpose, lightweight packaging is constantly growing along the circular economy. Packaging designers are important change makers who play an essential role in innovating smarter, resource-efficient packages. Metsä Board challenged designers from all over the world to design future zero-waste solutions.

Doggett Labels

Doggett labels is an iconic brand in the Australian printing landscape.

James Walker, Metsa Group

Metsa Group is an internationally operating frontrunner in sustainable bioeconomy. A successful forest industry group with strong roots in the Finnish forests.
They produce fossil-free products from renewable wood grown in sustainably managed Northern forests. Investment in growth, innovating new bio-products and building a fossil-free future for the planet.
Metsä is unique from a company structure lens – the parent company Metsäliitto is a co-operative owned by more than 90,000 Finnish forest owners. James Walker shares insight into the advancement in technology, innovation and core goal to reach 2030 sustainability goals.

Chris Foley, Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO)

Chris Foley shares insightful discussion on the transformation change APCO is driving in the Australian market. Discussion flows from how brands can retain social licence to operate, through the the key reason the national Packaging Targets are so permanent to the future of northstar outcomes towards circular economy.
Their vision is a packaging value chain that collaborates to keep packaging materials out of landfill and retains the maximum value of the materials, energy and labour within the local economy.
Ambition and friction point of the targets are outlined along the work related to ARL and the ANZPAC Plastics Pact. It’s about collectively maintain momentum for the greater outcomes of industry, business, communities, future generations and our planet.

Craig Brown, Sappi; Lou Tsoukalas, Ball & Doggett 

With the recent partnership between Ball & Doggett and Sappi, we unpack the journey into innovative barrier papers, global current state of play around these papers. We explore what’s on the horizon around further innovation answering to the “GLOBAL” question of sustainability.